6 New: Chordograms

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With the previous songs in mind, I have created key- and chordograms of top tracks from 2018 (Rosebud by U.S. Girls) and 2020 (Processed by the Boys by Protomartyr).

The level of prominence of each key/chord is represent by a darker colour.

I used “norm = manhattan; distance = manhattan” for both chordograms, and “norm = manhattan; distance = aitchison” for both keygrams.

Need to work out my findings

Things to consider: Compare above to top track of years 2016 (or other/more years).

Introduction: Diving into my 10-years worth of last.fm music log

Hallotjes?

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inspirerende tekst

Sources:

2. Bar graph

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2014/2: “CE middelbare school” (correspond to lower valence as seen in next figures?)

Pre-2015: Only ‘scrobbles’ from PC/laptop.

2015/1: New phone and subscribed to Spotify with last.fm

2016/3: Start UvA

2018/3: Half year in Hong Kong

3.1 Track-level comparison: Part 1

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3.2 Track-level comparison: Part 2

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4 Chromagram

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Outlier: Song’s very reliant on silence with occasional …

Also interesting: Most listened song vs favourite song of 2020. Compare multiple low valence/energy songs and see if they have something in common.

Optional: DTW of Dreams cover by Faye Wong

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Reasoning on inclusion: In top 2014. Might become an outtake if it doesn’t fit in my portfolio story.

5 Self-similarity Matrices

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On the left, you see two self-similarity matrices displaying chroma and timbre features of Processed by the Boys by Protomartyr (top track of 2020). As for the settings:segments are set in bars, applied normalization and summary statistics are euclidean and root mean square, respectively. The darker the colour brightness, the more similar the segments are compared to segments before it in time.

Findings:

Things to consider: Compare above to top track of years 2016, 2018 (Rosebud) or other/more years.

Conclusions

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